St sebastian

Saint Sebastian by Jusepe de Ribera, 1636

St Sébastien is probably the most depicted Saint. And the most depicted gay icon today. He is represented most of the times since the Renaissance as a young, slim, athletic, sensual, beautiful young man (even though during the first centuries he had another image, at least older). Maybe it is the reason he became a gay icon. Catedral de Se. Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Brian McMorrow. Hundreds if not thousands of paintings, drawings, mosaics, engravings can be seen from St Sébastien…

St Sébastien is probably the most depicted Saint. And the most depicted gay icon today. He is represented most of the times since the Renaissance as a young, slim, athletic, sensual, beautiful young man (even though during the first centuries he had another image, at least older). Maybe it is the reason he became a gay icon. Catedral de Se. Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Brian McMorrow. Hundreds if not thousands of paintings, drawings, mosaics, engravings can be seen from St Sébastien…

Check out our new photos on Flickr! June 08 2019 at 08:21PM

Here, nothing violated the beauty of the body presented by Colacicchi, intensified by the raking light that arrives from the left, languid and and sensual in line with the modern reinterpretation activated in 1911 by Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Le martyre de Saint Sébastien.

Saint Irene nursing Saint Sebastian